COVID-19 Funding Details

Justice Assistance Grants - State

Provide resources to fund overtime, equipment (including law enforcement and medical personal protective equipment), hiring, supplies (such as gloves, masks, sanitizer), training, travel expenses (particularly related to the distribution of resources to the most impacted areas), and addressing the medical needs of inmates in state, local, and tribal prisons, jails, and detention centers.

Law Enforcement Planning Commission

January 20, 2020

July 31, 2023

$2.93M

$2.67M

$263.09K

Unemployment Insurance (Base)- UI

Provide benefits to temporarily unemployed through no fault of their own. Benefits cover expenses such as housing, food, clothing, and necessary transportation. No deductions are made from the worker’s wages to finance Unemployment Insurance Benefits. Eligibility for Unemployment Insurance Benefits is based on wages earned not on family financial resources.

Virgin Islands Department of Labor

N/A

Until funds are expended

$68.25M

$68.25M

$0

Dislocated Worker Grants

Funding provided under the CARES Act to the Dislocated Worker Grants for temporary employment & training programs through state & local workforce programs. The DWG funding may be used to assist dislocated workers, workers who were laid-off due to COVID-19, self-employed individuals who are unemployed or underemployed as a result of COVID-19, and long-term unemployed individuals.

Virgin Islands Department of Labor

April 1, 2020

July 31, 2023

$1.50M

$1.12M

$381.68K

Unemployment Insurance- PUA

Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program expands unemployment insurance eligibility to self-employed workers, freelancers, independent contractors, and part-time workers impacted by the coronavirus. The program provides up to 39 weeks of benefits and permit states to extend unemployment benefits up to an additional 13 weeks which is available retroactively beginning on or after Jan. 27 to Dec 31, 2020 and calculated based on the weekly benefit amounts provided under a state's unemployment insurance laws.

Virgin Islands Department of Labor

April 1, 2020

June 30, 2022

$28.69M

$28.69M

$0

Unemployment Insurance- PEUC

Extends benefits for an extra 24 weeks after regular unemployment compensation benefits are exhausted. PEUC is available from April 4, 2020 through March 13, 2021

Virgin Islands Department of Labor

April 1, 2020

June 30, 2022

$24.74M

$24.74M

$0

Lost Wages Assistance Program - LWAP

The Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program is a federal-state unemployment benefit that provided $300 to $400 in weekly compensation to eligible claimants. The LWA program was meant to address unemployment for the period Aug. 1, 2020, to Dec. 27, 2020.

Virgin Islands Department of Labor

August 10, 2020

September 27, 2021

$6.98M

$6.98M

$0

Unemployment Insurance (Supplemental)- FPUC

Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) is an emergency program established by the CARES Act to increase unemployment benefits for Americans who are out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Virgin Islands Department of Labor

April 1, 2020

June 30, 2021

$94.14M

$94.14M

$0

Unemployment Insurance- EB

Extended Benefits are available to workers who have exhausted regular unemployment insurance benefits during periods of high unemployment. Federal benefits available through March 14, 2021.

Virgin Islands Department of Labor

June 1, 2020

May 1, 2021

$2.65M

$2.65M

$0

Fisheries Assistance Funding (NOAA Fisheries) II

Allocated to states, and territories with coastal and marine fishery participants who have been negatively affected by COVID-19

Virgin Islands Department of Planning & Natural Resources

September 2, 2021

August 31, 2024

$2.97M

$469.46K

$2.50M

Fisheries Assistance Funding (NOAA Fisheries) I

To provide COVID-19 aid to USVI fishing industry sectors of licensed and registered commercial and charter fishers and fishing-dependent businesses.

Virgin Islands Department of Planning & Natural Resources

October 1, 2020

August 31, 2023

$0.99M

$641.67K

$351.33K

National Endowment for the Arts-approved strategic plan

Grant Award No. 1863305-61-20 (American Rescue Plan Act) Project No. F80J4 (31008DR4 -DR9). VICA's Board of Directors met on December 20, 2021, and reviewed twenty-two (22) applications for sub-awards. It allocated $50,000 to VICA to support eligible operating expenses associated with administering the program and the remaining $161,800 was awarded to established and eligible organizations. The processing of documents continue to pay out the funds to the eligible organizations. As of March 31, 2022, a total of $201,800.00 was expanded from the grant award including the $50,000.00 to VICA. Eighteen (18) orgarnizations benefited from from this program.

Virgin Islands Department of Planning & Natural Resources

October 1, 2020

September 30, 2022

$211.80K

$211.80K

$0

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Enable libraries and museums to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus to ensure access to information about COVID-19, government actions and community safety messages, telemedicine, job and unemployment resources. The funding will be used to sustain those institutions that are vital to the citizens of the community and continued awareness during a crisis.

Virgin Islands Department of Planning & Natural Resources

April 21, 2020

August 31, 2022

$9.60K

$9.60K

$2

National Endowment for the Arts

To support arts program, services, and activities associated with carrying out the agency's National Endowment for the Arts - approved strategic plan, as well as salaries, administration costs, and related sub granting to the nonprofit arts sector in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Virgin Islands Department of Planning & Natural Resources

October 1, 2019

December 31, 2021

$200.10K

$200.10K

$0